Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-03-31


oners removed from the Jail in safety, and
no person was injured in the operation.
EVERY few weeks the country IS informed
| that the Tongue River Indians, of Montana
are starving to death. A recent dispatch
from Agent Upshaw was to the effect tina.
no Indians under that agency have starved
| to death, and that they are drawing thei,
| customary rations.
IT was reported that Blk persons were
captured in st. Petersburg one day re-
Gently in connection with the plot to as
sassinate the Gar and hanged the next
day. DcGaieh, the man who murdered
Lieutenant Colonel Sudei,1n, the Russian
chief OF police, three years ago, and who
was suspected OF having planned the plo,
against the Cars life, was said to have
been one of the six.
AT the passenger meeting of the Central
Traffic Association at Chicago recently con
siderable ill-feeling was developed over the
refusal of the Chicago & Grand Trunk road
to agree to the abrogation of second class
rates. The adjustment of commissions was
also discussed and report made 10 the
managers that it was not feasible, as sew.
eral Of the lines refused to agree to the re-
form.
THE demands of the dissatisfied employees
OF the North Chicago rollin. mills have
been conceded almost in their entirety
DREADFUL tragedy has been reported
from Ho;a Shib Chen, China, twenty miles
northeast OF HOngchow. Over 300 tramps
appeared at the village and greatly irrita-
ted the inhabitants. Thevillagers inveigled
the whole body into temple and during
the night set fire to it. Only forty of the
occupants Of the building escaped. The re-
malnder were burned to death.
THREE unknown men, evidently lab orers
were struck by Baltimore & Ohio OK press
train recently near Leighton Station, Pa
Two of them were killed outright, the third
fatally injured.
THE liabilities of the suspended firm OF
James and John Hunter, of Philadelphia,
are reported to amount to s500,000
THE grand jury at Greenfield, Mass, has
indicted Frank W. Foster ex-town treas
urer, for embezzlcment from the town
treasury, the amount taken a;,gregatine
$l5. 600.
LETTERS containing money, .afts, ETC.,
to the value Of $l25, 900 were stolen few
days ago from an Astrachan (Russia) post
Office by a nlhilist, who dug an underground
passage to the building and entered it b;
cutting through the floor
AT Methodist Episcopal donation party
held in school house at Stittvile, n. Y.
recently the floor gave way and ten or
twelve persons were severely injured, be-
ing bruised, burned and scalded and sus
tanning fractures of the limbs.
THERE are now 277,1 1877 applications f.,
pensions before the Pension Bureau. They
are pouring in at the rate of 6.000 PER week
PAT GUNNAN and Mat Turney, Toys anc
stOwaways, were found the other day ir
the hold of the steamer Kansas at Boston,
fourteen days from Liverpool. The matches
were fastened down and covered with
freight. They were without food I'd drink
and were in a critical condition nen res
cued
An extra session OF the Missouri. LeGisla
lure has been called for May IL.
JACKSON MARION was hanged at eatrice,
Neb., on the 25th, for the murder If John
Cameron in 1872.
A STRIKE of cotton handlers at New Or
leans on the 25th involved 10000 men i'll
various branches of the trade.
TIE missing steamer Scotia scachet
Long Island on the 18th and was ruu
ashore, her machinery having giver. OFT.
THE coal managers at New York recently
decided to restrict the production Of anthra
cite for the month of April to 9, 25o, 900 tons
AT Viewer Neustadt, Lower Austria, d
powder mill exploded the other day, blow.
ing three soldiers to atoms. The explosion
caused great scare in the surrounding
country, the people believing an earthquake
had occurred.
FEARS of an impending revolution were
reported from Madrid, Spain, on the 25th
WEED & Co.'s mill at Binghamton, N. Y,
was burned recently. Loss, $4,000
BY collision on a heavy grade near Lee
tonia, O., the other morning, two cars Of an
express tram were wrecked and the en-
gineer killed and six persons injured. Al
attempt to repair an air brake was the
cause.
A DISPATCH to the Boston Chamber of
Commerce reported that the yacht Dauntr
less had won the ocean race, having arrived
off Roche's point on the 25:h. She was
little over thirteen days on the passage.
The jury IN the breach of promise case OF
Mrs. Harriet A. Moore against Moses
the we'll known millionaire, which
was recently on trial at Redwood City,
Cal, returned a verdict for SIS, 600 in favor
of the plaintiff. The suit was for S251, 900.
BUSINESS failures Dun's report) for seven
days ended March "a numbered for the
United States 2lS, for Canada Al; total, $50
against go the previous week, and 22l foa
the corresponding week of last year.